Control: retitle -1 Drop transitional sysvinit package in stretch Am 05.05.2015 um 17:57 schrieb Josh Triplett: > On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 02:08:56PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 11:24:53 -0700 Josh Triplett <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> sysvinit-core depends on initscripts, but sysvinit does not. However, >>> sysvinit ships /lib/sysvinit/init, and it should be possible to use >>> sysvinit by booting with init=/lib/sysvinit/init without having >>> sysvinit-core installed. Thus, sysvinit needs to have dependencies on >>> any packages needed for a functional sysvinit init system, including >>> initscripts (and potentially other dependencies of sysvinit-core). >> >> The sysvinit package (as shipped in jessie) was mostly intended as a >> transitional measure when upgrading from wheezy to jessie. >> I tried to make that clear also in the package description. > > I had assumed that the sysvinit package would stick around as long as > sysvinit does. What is your plan post-jessie? > >> Keep in mind, that when installing jessie from scratch, there will be no >> /etc/inittab. This means, installing the sysvinit package (in parallel >> to systemd-sysv) will not result in a bootable system via >> init=/lib/sysvinit/init. >> >> Now, if there is desire to make the sysvinit package useful beyond the >> wheezy -> jessie upgrade, someone would have to deal with this inittab >> problem first, I think. > > That's a good point. I would have assumed that one of the sysvinit > packages would create /etc/inittab on installation. I suspect that some > people installing jessie from scratch will find it rather surprising > when they're unable to switch to sysvinit simply by installing the > appropriate package.
So, we've been discussing the role of the "sysvinit" binary package within the pkg-systemd team just recently. We've come to the conclusion that keeping the sysvinit transitional package is actively harmful, as it's confusing for users. They need to pick between sysvinit-core and sysvinit, and intalling sysvinit won't actually lead to a bootable system if there is no pre-existing /etc/inittab. I've therefor gone ahead and done the necessary changes to the src:sysvinit package to drop the sysvinit package [1] It's not pushed to master yet. So if you have any concerns regarding this plan, please speak up now. Otherwise I plan to pull in the changes into master, so they are part of the next (non-maintainer) upload. Regards, Michael [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/sysvinit.git/commit/?h=biebl/wip/master&id=ea74f6a4399c65853a2df22802136437414c3efd -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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